Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830

Author/Contributor(s):	Legacey, Erin-Marie
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	04/15/2019
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial...